A customs officer walks in Kyiv Boryspil International airport, some 29 kilometers south of Kyiv, on April 2, 2020. The biggest airport of the country, Boryspil was closed on March 16, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While scattered charter flights have taken place, international and domestic flights are not expected to resume before June 15, 2020.

The novel coronavirus outbreak of 2020 — the most rampant and deadly epidemic of this century — will likely be remembered for how quickly it spread around the world, and the lasting changes it made to how people live, work and travel.

The COVID‑19 respiratory disease that the novel virus spreads has inflicted a devastating collective injury on all of humanity, having infected at least 5.7 million people, killing more than 352,000 of its victims.